Egypt Building on a stellar career in pharma and medtech both in Egypt and internationally, Ahmed Ezz El-Din now serves as CEO of Cleopatra Hospitals Group, Egypt’s largest private hospital provider. Dr Ezz El-Din explains why implementing an organisational and management structure based on that of the pharma industry helps Cleopatra…
Egypt While universal health insurance is the talk of the town in Egypt today, private healthcare groups – serving up to 40 percent of the population in both the insurance and out-of-pocket markets – still have an important role to play. This role covers both providing high quality care to their…
UAE The Saudi German Hospital Group is one of the leading hospital groups in the Middle East, with hospitals in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Egypt. Dr Reem Osman, CEO for the Group in the UAE, discusses their presence in the country, the Group’s ambitious expansion plans and analyses the…
Korea Celltrion Healthcare, the marketing arm of the biopharmaceutical company Celltrion won a huge deal in France last Friday (2nd November 2018) with big tenders for Herzuma, a biosimilar of Roche’s blockbuster breast cancer treatment Herceptin. Herzuma, with indications for positive metastatic breast cancer, early cancer, and metastatic gastric cancer…
Algeria The global drop in oil prices in 2015-2016 hit the Algerian economy – which is heavily reliant on petroleum revenues – hard. The country’s government implemented severe economic cuts across a number of sectors (including healthcare), to redress the balance, shuttering plans to create five new hospitals. With the multinational…
Indonesia Dr. Kuntjoro Adi Purjanto, Chairman of PERSI (National Association of Hospitals in Indonesia), explains the role that public and private hospitals are playing to successfully realize the national healthcare goals and the active collaboration of PERSI with the government to enhance the Indonesian hospital eco-system. Could you please introduce yourself…
Pharma Prof. Dr. István Vályi-Nagy, Director General of the United St. Istvan and St. Laszlo Hospitals, shares his insights on running one of the largest hospitals in Hungary and the challenges of chronic underfunding, while also providing his personal ambitions for the future state of Hungary’s healthcare system. Prior to becoming…
hospitals The secretary general of the association representing Turkish private hospitals dicusses the private sector’s role in the Turkish healthcare system, as a subset of hospitals with a particularly high standards and robust medical infrastructure. Could you please begin by explaining the role of OHSAD plays in the Turkish medical community?…
Private Hospitals Association The Association was founded in 1984 and has played an important role throughout the decades improving the standards of the country’s private hospitals. How important is the Association today in building the success of the Jordanian private hospital industry? The Private Hospitals Association (PHA) is a private voluntary, non-profit organization…
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